INT. STUDENT HANDBOOK 2010
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Strathfield South High School has an outstanding program of student leadership opportunities. These include the Student Representative Council for students in years 7 - 11 and the Prefects and Captains in year 12. Both of these groups meet together daily focusing on areas of school development including fund raising, school environment and student social events. Each of these areas will have separate web pages outlining their current activities and achievements.
SRC at SSHS. The SRC at Strathfield South H.S consists of 20 members (across years 7-11) including an international student and a representative from the Hearing Support Unit. The SRC members meet with the school’s prefect body for roll call and DEAR every day and they collaboratively work on any ongoing projects.
The SRC at Strathfield South High is divided into six committees: Environment Fundraising Social Publishing School values Technology
Each committee is led by two prefects and is made up of 4-5 SRC members except the social committee where everyone belongs to.
Achievements in academic year 2008:
1. Environment committee: Clean-up Australia Day. Paper Recycling – All SRC members collect and empty recycling bins once a week. Participated in Strathfield Council’s Adopt-a Park program in Marlene Reserve, Greenacre.
Currently undertaking an environmental project to regenerate a native area. We named this area South South Sanctuary. SSS will inhabit native plants and animals as well as provide an educational outdoor classroom for SSHS students, when it is complete.
SSS will be completed in several stages. 1st Stage- Clearing of grounds, weeding of local plants and planting of new native species, is complete. Following our successful application to HP Schools’ Future Program we received two days of practical assistance from CVA (Conservation Volunteers Australia), who sent out a team of 10-12 volunteers to carry out the work for stage 1 of the project. We also received a HP desktop computer for our environmental project! (SSHS is one of five schools in Sydney to qualify for this award!).
2. Fundraising Committee: Years 7&8 fundraised to sponsor a child from Africa, via World Vision. Fundraised for Ryan Lodge’s trip to Gallipoli. Fundraised $1000 for Leukemia Foundation through World’s Greatest Shave. Fundraised $380.00 for Cancer Council by organising “The Biggest Morning Tea” for teachers. Raised $1400 for 40 Hour Famine, $400 on Pink Ribbon Morning Tea, $160 for UNICEF Fundraised $480.00 for Murtaza Tahiri, a year 7 student, who competed in the Pacific School Games in Canberra in November.
3. Social committee organized: Three school discos, one per term. “Fun night” watching the ‘state of origin’ at school. Farewell morning tea for 2008 prefects. Schoolgirls’ Breakfast with the Stars’ excursion at the Sydney Olympic Park.
4. Publishing committee: Wrote articles on SRC events and activities to be published by the school magazine, “The South Side” Advertised SRC activities such as discos, World’s Greatest Shave etc, through posters, announcements on morning assembly etc. Currently working on a multi-lingual welcome sign to display outside the front foyer.
5. School Values Committee is busy promoting SSHS’s new school values, which are: Respect, Responsibility, Diligence, Care and Concern, Honesty. Had an input in identifying the school values. Promoting school values by role playing to feeder primary school kids. Wearing T-shirts printed with school values (All SRC members and prefects) to promote the school values. Promoting Respect for multiculturalism- Surveyed students/staff to find out their ethnic background. Flags to represent every student and staff member will be displayed in the school hall, soon. Collaborating with the Art faculty to produce murals portraying multiculturalism, to be displayed around the school.
6. Technology committee: Responsible for updating the school’s web-site with SRC news and events.
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